The usual weekly round up for some of my favorite links this week:
Author: Tom (Page 413 of 428)
will_paginate is my gem if choice when it comes to introducing pagination into a Rails application. It’s really easy to setup assuming that you’re going to be paging through Active Record collections.
It’s possible to page through non-ActiveRecord collections but requires slightly different arguments.

In a number of recent projects, I’ve been needing to provide an overlay of sorts over an entire page or a number of elements on a page. Unfortunately, most options ship with extra weight – they include support for modal dialogs or some type of lightbox overlay all of which was overkill for what I needed.
To that end, I ended up writing a lightweight plugin that makes adding overlays trivially easy. Continue reading
Collected a bunch of stuff over the past two weeks (from vacation up until now).
I came across an interesting question on Server Fault recently:
I’m doing svn update to update the code for my php website, but it leaves
.svn/folders all over.I think its dangerous to leave those files publically readable, but its very easy to update the system.
Is there a way to use
svn updateto update the system, but not to export the.svn/folders?
Solid answer, too.
